Google has unveiled new artificial intelligence-powered search capabilities which are set to help health-care workers pull accurate clinical information from medical records.
The new search tool - which will be available through Google Cloud - will span across clinical notes, scanned documents and electronic health records, all of which can be pulled from by medical professionals with an ambition to save a significant amount of time and energy for health-care workers.
Cris Ross, Mayo Clinic's chief information officer, told
CNBC: "We are curious, we're enthusiastic, we're also careful.
"And we're not going to put anything into patient care until it's really ready to be in patient care,” he continued.
Google’s new technology will also enable doctors to quickly determine whether a patient will be eligible for any trials, alongside accurately cataloging which medications a patient has been prescribed during a specific period of time.
Speaking of the technology,
Kapil Parakh, senior medical lead at Google, explained: “Searching for information in an electronic health record may not seem like a big deal - we can search our computers, cloud drives and even our phones more easily than electronic health records. As a clinician I’ve experienced this frustration myself and at scale this contributes to clinician burnout.”
Kapil also mentioned the potential of technology such as this if it were available when ‘patient zero’
contracted Ebola in Liberia and traveled to the US as “this information was not easy for the doctors to find or act upon”.
“A crucial opportunity was missed,” he continued, “[and] for all of these reasons and more, I’m excited about the new capabilities coming to electronic medical records.”
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